Press photograph showing an initiation ceremony of the Los Angeles Ku Klux Klan chapter. Standing robed figures surround a group of kneeling men in front of a table in the center, atop which is an electric cross, with a bible in front of it. Label on reverse states that after the picture was taken, the photographer was blindfolded and taken from the location

• 1922

• International News Service, Los Angeles Bureau,

• Turner, Steve (Art dealer)

1 photograph : black and white ; 17 x 24 cm

still image

Title from label caption on verso

"Photo by "International" / 879 Los Angeles Bureau"--verso

• Los Angeles (California)

• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

• Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.)
• Photographs
• Secret societies
• Secret societies--Rituals

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Mms: 991004639949706535

photograph by "International"

Los Angeles, California :, "International", Los Angeles Bureau

Public domain (US)

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2021-12-10